Test 3 · ★★ · The check that settles it
Uncle shares: «BREAKING: schools ban homework!» from «LOL News Daily». What's wise?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uncle, schools · What happens: share, ban, be · To what, where: BREAKING, homework, LOL News Daily · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Uncle shares: «BREAKING: schools ban homework!» from «LOL News Daily».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | nsubj |
| 2 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 shares | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 BREAKING | punct |
| 5 | BREAKING | breaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ban | punct |
| 7 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ban | nsubj |
| 8 | ban | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shares | parataxis |
| 9 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ban | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 ban | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 ban | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Daily | case |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 Daily | punct |
| 14 | LOL | LOL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Daily | compound |
| 15 | News | News | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Daily | compound |
| 16 | Daily | Daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ban | obl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 Daily | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Uncle | BREAKING | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ban in a quote | present | schools | homework | LOL News Daily | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer homework=Beneficiary from daily=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What's wise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Check trusted news first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 news | amod |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Check | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | trusted news | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | |||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Share it with everyone in the class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Share | share | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Share | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 everyone | case |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Share | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 everyone | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | imperative | you not said here | it | with everyone | tree rules |
Option 3
Believe it — it says breaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | obj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 6 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 says | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | break | gerund | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Stop doing homework at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doing | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 doing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | you not said here | homework | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality |
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